1 More Thing, 009: Cleveland Watkiss

It s all about the energy Deep discussions and conversations with inspiring, talented and innovative artists across the beats and bass landscape. This week: Cleveland Watkiss. Where do you even start with a pioneer like Cleveland Watkiss A teacher, an improviser, a scholar, a multidisciplinary musician entrenched in so many worlds of music he can flex from baroque to jungle via jazz and his most recent explorations of seminal Jamaican classics. Often within just one working day. To mark the release of his latest track Energy with Digital Dike Okoh on Function Records Dave Columbo Jenkins catches Cleveland for an extensive conversation about music, life, art, politics, passions and, despite the world being so turbulent and volatile right now, how he still has a powerful sense of hope for the future. Inspiration direct from the source Come and be a fly on the wall of this deep and engaged discussion. Energy is out now: functionre